23 Things They Don’t Tell You about Capitalism - Ha-Joon Chang

Written by Ha-Joon Chang
Format: MP3

Written by: Ha-Joon Chang
Narrated by: Joe Barrett
Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins

Format: Unabridged

Release Date:01-13-11
Publisher’s Summary

Thing 1: There is no such thing as the free market.
Thing 4: The washing machine has changed the world more than the Internet.
Thing 5: Assume the worst about people, and you get the worst.
Thing 13: Making rich people richer doesn’t make the rest of us richer.

If you’ve wondered how we did not see the economic collapse coming, Ha-Joon Chang knows the answer: We didn’t ask what they didn’t tell us about capitalism. This is a lighthearted book with a serious purpose: to question the assumptions behind the dogma and sheer hype that the dominant school of neoliberal economists - the apostles of the freemarket - have spun since the Age of Reagan.

Chang, the author of the international best seller Bad Samaritans, is one of the world’s most respected economists, a voice of sanity - and wit - in the tradition of John Kenneth Galbraith and Joseph Stiglitz.

23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism equips listeners with an understanding of how global capitalism works - and doesn’t. In his final chapter, “How to Rebuild the World”, Chang offers a vision of how we can shape capitalism to humane ends, instead of becoming slaves of the market.

Ha-Joon Chang teaches in the Faculty of Economics at the University of Cambridge. His books include the best-selling Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism. His Kicking Away the Ladder received the 2003 Myrdal Prize, and, in 2005, Chang was awarded the Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought.
What the Critics Say

“Shaking Economics 101 assumptions to the core … Eminently accessible, with a clearly liberal (or at least anticonservative) bent, but with surprises along the way—for one, the thought that markets need to become less rather than more efficient.” (Kirkus Reviews)

“An advocate of big, active government and capitalism as distinct from a free market, Chang presents an enlightening précis of modern economic thought - and all the places it’s gone wrong, urging us to act in order to completely rebuild the world economy: ‘This will make some readers uncomfortable… it is time to get uncomfortable.’” (Publishers Weekly)
“Is Free Market Capitalism the End of History?”

It often feels like we have to choose between a free-market capitalism winner and centrally-planned communism, which, having lost first, is clearly the loser. Ha-Joon Chang lays out why that dichotomy is false to start with. He busts a lot of myths that seem self-evident in a world so dominated by free-market ideology.

I think in order to get anything out of this book, you’ve got to be willing to consider that free-market economics must be measured against the real world, just as communism was in the end, and not just against our good ideas for others and our imaginative notions about them combined with a murky knowledge of our own (Anglo-Saxon) economic history.

This is definitely a book to listen to more than once.
“Tear Down this Myth”

Our recent financial meltdown provided a truly dramatic, frightening, undeniable refutation of every single free market verity that has dominated Western thinking since Thatcher and Reagan. It was as if a gigantic mask slipped for a moment. In the event, when all the economic theories proved false, when we learned that our grotesquely overpaid bankers and CEOs have actually been destroying value not building it, what happened?

They simply grabbed the money anyway. The Bush administration simply violated its own proclaimed ideology, pushed aside legal rules and constitutional niceties, and handed the plutocrats billions in taxpayer funds. It was not just socialism for the rich. It was more like the rich carrying out a brutal smash and grab job on a mammoth scale.

Since that ugly crime, has free market ideology lost ground in the United States? Hardly. It has only lost its mind. As GOP dissents on the financial crisis report show, Marketism has evolved into a blind, violent fundamentalism complete with a rising cadre of political goons.

Don’t worry, Ha-Joon Chan isn’t quite as virulent as I am. He is no fire breathing leftist. I liked this last book “Bad Samaritans” well enough to try this one, and found it an ideal primer on the economic (actually, political) myths that keep our system hurtling towards its next crisis. He takes 23 things you are likely to hear every free market ideologue (and most Americans) utter with confidence, and provides compelling rational and historical refutations.

And nice tidbits. Did you know, for example, that Marx was actually a bigger fan of the joint stock corporation than was Adam Smith? The brief, thematic chapters and a good reading make this an ideal economics book for the audio format. It is pitched at the average reader, but even those with some background will learn a thing or two.

Should be required reading for Marketism’s brainwashed masses. If you are among them, be brave, read it and think.

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